Travis Lankow

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SecOps, detection engineering. Posts about security thoughts mostly. Photographer, cat herder, and overall nerd. He/him. Opinions are my own.
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"[It] takes five years for Bezos to go from posting his photo op with the headstone of a murdered reporter to making billion-dollar deals with his killer." 🔥🌶️
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi
Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet

How long after a nation-state murders one of your columnists is it appropriate to make a multibillion-dollar deal with it? For Bezos: five years.

The Verge

The White House are going after Chris Krebs and his employer, Sentinel One.

They’re also going after CISA.

They call Chris a “significant bad-faith actor”.

Shocking stuff by the USG here.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship

RESTORING TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by Chris

The White House

Hello friends. The dreaded and long awaiting blog on WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE CYBERSECURITY JOBS MARKET has arrived.

https://tisiphone.net/2025/04/01/lesley-what-happened-to-the-cybersecurity-skills-shortage/

I'm sorry.

Lesley, What Happened to the “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage”?

Are you stressed out right now? I’m stressed out. Most Americans are, and cybersecurity job seekers are definitely not an exception. I do a ton of career mentoring and career clinics, and I s…

Lesley Carhart's Cybersecurity Blog
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/
Conservatives and the False Romance of Russia

American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.

The Atlantic
Cat's Guide to a Successful Day

“Many state and local election offices rely on EI-ISAC as their only source of federal cybersecurity support, so cutting it puts entire counties at risk,” said the Center for Democracy and Technology's Tim Harper

https://therecord.media/cisa-cuts-10-million-isac-funding

CISA cuts $10 million annually from ISAC funding for states amid wider cyber cuts

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed this week that it is cutting funding for cybersecurity intelligence sharing bodies amid a wider campaign of firings and budget cuts impacting the federal cybersecurity landscape.

Umm, this is big COVID prevention news. Nobody tell RFK Jr.

Original bsky thread at link below.

“THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution.

The study has been published in Science. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720 “

đź§µ https://bsky.app/profile/sailorrooscout.bsky.social/post/3ljxftvw5x22h

Somebody has uploaded Black Basta ransomware group’s internal chat server logs to the internet, so if you want to go read their chats about Capita and a host of victims who tried to cover up their breaches, now’s your chance.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/black-basta-ransomware-gang-s-internal-chat-logs-leak-online/

Black Basta ransomware gang's internal chat logs leak online

An unknown leaker has released what they claim to be an archive of internal Matrix chat logs belonging to the Black Basta ransomware operation.

BleepingComputer